xmonad
Save state between computer restarts/crashes
This might be a horrific idea, but I'm typing it from a laptop that crashes occasionally when it sleeps, and it would be awesome if XMonad had a "resume last session" option similar to web browsers.
Not so much horrific as difficult, unless it's a full desktop environment and all programs "speak" that environment sufficiently. Granting that most programs used with modern desktop environments do speak XDG session protocol — but many of the programs used with xmonad don't even speak the original ICCCM session protocol very well if at all.
Would scoping it to just terminals make it more tractable? XMonad makes it so convenient to spread out that I often end up with 5 or 6 terminals open pretty quickly. Reopening GUI programs manually wouldn't be much of an inconvenience if I could restart terminals automatically.
Not really, no. How does xmonad or any other program know the difference?
Makes sense. I may take a shot at making a script to do it myself, if I do I'll report how it goes in #xmonad IRC.
In the meantime feel free to close this, since it's not really actionable. Thanks for the help!
What about https://linux.die.net/man/1/xsm? I have absolutely no idea if that still works in 2021 but it might.
Most modern programs don't speak enough of the xsm protocol; they expect an XDG session manager.